Sprout-puller.



A. B. RIDDLE.

SPROUT FULLER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 24, 1917- 1 ,27 2, 5 30. Patented July 16, 1918.

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ABNER B. RIDDLE, OF BYN'UM, NORTH CAROLINA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ADONNOS '1. WARD, OF BYNUM, NORTH CAROLINA.

SPROUT-PULLER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 16, 1918.

0r shoots, and the objects of the invention.

are, first, to provide a sprout puller in which sprout gripping jaws are so mounted that leverage may be applied to draw the sprout from the ground, second, to provide a sprout puller that may be readily carried about by hand and used by a single operator, third, to provide a simple and efiicient sprout puller.

With the foregoing and other objects in View, which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

A practical embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanying drawing, wherein Figure 1 is a side elevation of a sprout puller constructed in accordance with this invention.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same.

Referring to the drawing by numerals of reference:

The puller consists of'a base block 1 preferably of wood and of any suitable shape. Secured to the block 1 by bolts 2 or otherwise, is a substantially triangular support 3. One leg of the triangle is extended beyond the apex to form laterally extending arm 4 which merges into a downwardly and forwardly inclined portion 5, the end of which is bent, as shown, to produce a gripping jaw 6, which may be provided with longitudinal corrugations 7.

A bracket arm 8 may be provided with its rear end secured to the base of the triangle Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

3 by one of the bolts 2 and its forward end secured to the lower end of the portion 5. This arm acts as a support.

Pivotally secured in the apex of the triangular support 3, by means of the bolt 9 or otherwise, is a lever arm 10 formed at one end with a handle 11 and at the other, or lower end, with a curved jaw 12 adapted to contact and cooperate with the jaw 6. The jaw 12 may be provided with transverse corrugations 13.

In practice the device is operated in the following manner: The puller is carried through the field by the handle 11 and when a sprout is to be pulled the device is rested upon the ground, in the position shown in Fig. 1 and the lever 10 thrown forward to open the jaws and the jaws positioned to embrace the sprout. The lever 10 is then drawn rearwardly, which first closes the jaws upon the sprout and then pivots the device about the base block 1 which pulls the sprout from the ground.

By this means the sprout, which is often deep rooted, is quickly and easily pulled without the loss of time and effort necessary in grubbing or attempting to pull them by hand.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters- Patent,'is:

A sprout puller, comprising a base, a triangular support secured to the base, one leg of the support merging at its apex into an offset arm, the arm terminating in an angularly disposed jaw, a brace secured to the base and the arm, and a lever fulcrumed in the apex of the support and swingable transversely of the jaw, and a curved jaw formed on the lever and adapted to engage the first aw.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ABNER B. RIDDLE.

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l/Vitnesses:

J. M. JOHNSON, JAs. L. GRIFFIN.

Washington, D. C. 

